Kiersten and Abbey’s Road Trip

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If you follow @PortSebastian on Instagram or GetMeStarted on Flicker, you probably know that Kiersten and Abbey took a little road trip in the Fall of 2015.

Kiersten met Tony a couple years ago and they’ve been involved in a long-distance relationship ever since, traveling to see each other as often as they can. Tony, who is a Coastal Engineer, lives in Florida, but he travels often in his work. When he found out he was going to be in Maine for a week, Kiersten made arrangements to take a bus to Maine to spend some time with him.

Kiersten’s good friend, Abbey, asked Kiersten if she would like some company on the bus and she said yes.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get to take any more pictures on the trip . . . but there just may be a reference to this trip in Season One of Port Sebastian! Stay tuned! 🙂

In the time it took me to develop a clear view of how I wanted to tell my doll stories, I took a couple years’ worth (ok , several years’ worth) of photos and made several slide show videos, making all sorts of mistakes along the way and changing my mind countless times about the way I wanted to go about it. Finally, I decided that:.

I wanted to attempt to create a web series that is part stop-motion animation and part slide show

I wanted to do it with voices rather than the mixture of speech bubbles, captioned dialog, and text-to-speech (in one video) that I’d used before, and

I wanted to tell an ongoing scripted story, with scenes and plots and twists, in soap-opera style, rather than simply “glimpses” into various characters’ lives as I’d done before.

But (cue record-scratch sound here), I had to rethink numbers 1 and 2 for SO many reasons – mainly a lack of the time and resources needed to pull off something like that. I may be able to do that later in life at some point, but for now my direction is to stick with number 3 and to do it in photo-story format.

So, I’m still building sets, writing scripts, and planning, with hopes of debuting Season One by the summer of 2019.

Many of my older photos, slideshows, and videos either told a piece of a story or allowed a glimpse into the backgrounds of some of the characters. Port Sebastian: The Back Story explains how it all began and provides insight into the characters and stories you will see unfolding in Season One.

(Also see Misc & Fun Stuff for a wide range of posts about dolls, characters, and sometimes silliness. Some of the character posts give a tiny bit more background into their lives.)